Psychosocial risk exposure and mental health outcomes of European workers with low socioeconomic status

Specific effects associated with the recent experience of the pandemic and the technological developments induced by digitalisation are acknowledged as strong external trends with the capacity to affect working conditions and the occurrence of PSRs for LSES workers. [...] Particularly in the context of this study, we take as a reference the standard definition of PSRs employed by EU-OSHA based upon the early works of the ILO and Cox and Griffiths (e.g. [...] A third example is the ‘effort–reward imbalance model’, which builds on the lack of reciprocity of the rewards provided by the employer in exchange for the effort required by the job, in terms of salaries, recognition, and career and promotion opportunities (Siegrist and Wege, 2020; Niedhammer et al., 2015). [...] For the purposes of this study, the roles of the COVID-19 pandemic and the novel (accelerated) technological developments induced by digitalisation are acknowledged as strong external trends with the capacity to affect working conditions and the occurrence of PSRs. [...] Graphical visualisation of the analytical framework employed in this study Source: the authors European Agency for Safety and Health at Work – EU-OSHA 19 Overview of OSH research regarding mental health at work of LSES workers 2 Mental health outcomes from exposure to PSRs of European LSES workers Following the broad operational definitions of LSES workers described in section 0, the results of th.